/// <summary>
/// Serializes the entity collection to xml and puts the data into a file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="entityCollection">The Entity collection to serialize.</param>
/// <param name="path">The Path to the destination file.</param>
public static void SerializeXml <T>(TList <T> entityCollection, string path) where T : IEntity, new()
{
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(entityCollection.GetType());
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(path);
ser.Serialize(sw, entityCollection);
sw.Close();
}
/// <summary>
/// Serializes the <see cref="T:TList{T}"/> of IEntity to XML
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">type to return, type must implement IEntity</typeparam>
/// <param name="entityCollection">TList of T type to return</param>
/// <returns>string of serialized XML</returns>
public static string SerializeXml <T>(TList <T> entityCollection) where T : IEntity, new()
{
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(entityCollection.GetType());
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
TextWriter writer = new StringWriter(sb);
ser.Serialize(writer, entityCollection);
writer.Close();
return(sb.ToString());
}